Oh, I do love it when readers contact me - it is such an incredible thrill, and it makes me realise how I should have made the effort more often when I was a youngster. Back in those days, of course, one had to write a letter c/o the publisher. Now people just find me on my blog. Using the old fashioned method as a teenager I remember getting really beautiful letters from Simon Callow and Tobias Wolff - both very classy writers with impeccable manners to boot. Here's some of what's interesting on the www: